February 15, 2026
Boros, J., Hajdu, M., Magyari, P., Vida, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2026). Distribution of the EU Funds in Hungary: Challenges and Anomalies. CRCB. https://www.crcb.eu/?p=4013
Tag Archives: EU
Why is it Necessary for Hungary to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office?
September 24, 2025
Tóth, I. J. (2025, September 24). Why is it Necessary for Hungary to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office?
Some Empirical Evidence and Considerations [Presentation]. European Parliament, PETI Public Hearing, Brussels, Belgium. https://www.crcb.eu/?p=3725
Presentation at PETI Public Hearing ‘How could Hungary’s accession to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office help to unlock EU funds for Hungary’, September 24, 2025, 14:30-16:00; Brussels, European Parliament.
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Corruption Risk of EU-Funded Contracts in the EU 2007-2023
Corruption Risk and Education in Europe
Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás
2021. június 8.
Tóth I. J. 2021. Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás. [Testing, political corruption and Covid-19 mortality. ] CRCB Research Notes: 2021:2, Budapest: CRCB. https://bit.ly/3cqeHsn
Abstract
The paper deals with the impact of political (grand) corruption and government measures against the pandemic on the Covid-19 mortality rate using data of EU27 and OECD countries. The share of the positive tests within all tests is considered an indicator of government measures’ impact. We use the data of the World Bank and Our World in Data. The political corruption is measured by the 2019 read more
Magyarország a NER útján
Corruption, Institutions and Convergence. Empirical Analysis of Public Tenders of the Old and New EU Member States and Three Developing Countries
December 13, 2019
Tóth, István János – Hajdu, Miklós. 2019. Corruption, Institutions and Convergence. Empirical Analysis of Public Tenders of the Old and New EU Member States and Three Developing Countries. Budapest: CRCB.
Abstract
This paper focuses on the measurement of institutional convergence in the new EU member states and four Southern European EU member countries. Previous studies have used perception data or expert surveys at the country level to quantify institutional convergence. We present a new method that is based on hard micro-level data. Our approach focuses on read more
The intensity of competition, corruption risks, and the winner companies
Analysing Corruption as Black Holes – Intensity of Competiton, CorruptionRisks & Price Distortion
July 3, 2017
The head of CRCB attended the LEAR Public Procurement Conference – 2017 as a guest speaker. The presentation dealt with the analytical framework used by CRCB to analyse corruption risks, the intensity of competition, and price distortions, and demonstrated some results on these topics for Italian public procurement.
The presentation (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Tóth, I. J. (2017, July 3). Analysing Corruption as Black Holes: Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks & read more